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You Can Be Your Own Research Study

When I was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, some...
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Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences [ACE]

Starting in the 1980s, there was a focus on identifying risk factors for developing disease...
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Consuming Fear or Consumed by Fear?

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, I heard a priest give a sermon where he...
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Why I Am Glad That I Don’t Know Anything

Recently I received a call from one of my patients who told me that he...
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Failing to Succeed

I recently saw a Michael Jordan poster that pointed out all the shots that he...
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Being Present Doesn’t Have to Be an Art

David Brooks had an opinion piece in the New York Times on January 21, 2014...
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Why Some of Us Procrastinate

I've been helped by my patients to see patterns of brain functioning in people who...
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Grief…shrine or No Shrine?

I've had several requests to write another blog about grief.  A number of my patients...
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Shame vs Empathy

Empathy is good and shame is bad.  So why is this a big deal?  It...
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Adhd and Ptsd

Recently, someone who I have treated for several years was in my office and as...